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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: eHumanities Workshop at 40th Annual Meeting of the German Computer Science Society in Leipzig, Germany

2010-07-23T15:53:00Z

Marco Büchler asked me to post the following notice:

Workshop: eHumanities – How does computer science benefit?
Organiser: Prof. Gerhard Heyer and Marco Büchler (Natural Language Processing / CS, University of Leipzig)

SPECIAL HINT:
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The workshop is compiled NOT only by presentations of computer scientists BUT researchers from humanities and infrastructure as well. HUMANISTS ARE VERY WELCOME!!!

Dates:
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Conference Sept. 27th – Oct. 1st, 2010
eHumanities workshop: Thursday Sept. 30th.

Registration details:
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**Early bird registration: July 30th, 2010**
Registration page: http://www.informatik2010.de/480.html

Workshop description:
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In recent years the text-based humanities and social sciences experienced a synthesis between the increasing availability of digitized texts and algorithms from the fields of information retrieval and text mining that resulted in novel tools for text processing and analysis, and enabled entirely new questions and innovative methodologies.

The goal of this workshop is to investigate which consequences and potentials for computer science have emerged in turn from the digitization of the social sciences and humanities.

The workshop starts with a series of four invited talks by leading researchers in the field of eHumanities. Their presentations will revolve around the question “How can computer science benefit from eHumanities?”. The afternoon will focus on demonstrations and discussions of different solutions to an open challenge, which aims to contrast and compare methods used in computer science with those in the humanities.. In this section, members from both fields of the eHumanities community will apply their own methods and tools on data of their choice to solve a set of previously announced problems. The exact challenges will be made public with the official announcement of the workshop and will be focused on current issues of unsupervised semantic analysis of text which are relevant to computer science, e. g. the handling of unexpected relations and associations, the treatment of rare textual patterns, or the merging of heterogeneous sources.

The date for the workshop has been fixed on Thursday, September 30th, 2010. Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel (Director IAIS, Bonn/St. Augustin), Dr. Helge Kahler (Federal Ministry of Education and Research – Department of Humanities), Peter Wittenburg (MPG Nijmegen – Project CLARIN) and Prof. Dr. Gregory Crane (Tufts University, Boston – Project PERSEUS) will be the speakers for the morning session.

The fixed schedule is as follows:
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9.00 – 12.30 Talks: “How can computer science benefit from eHumanities?”

9.00 – 10.30
Talks section I
Gerhard Heyer, Marco Büchler: eHumanities – How does computer science benefit?, Natural Language Processing Group, University of Leipzig, Germany.
Peter Wittenburg1, Erhard Hinrichs2, Dan Broeder1, Thomas Zastrow2: eHumanities – can we manage the complexity? 1MPI für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2University of Tübingen, Germany.
Gregory Crane: The Work of the Humanities and Digital Philology. Editor-In-Chief Perseus Project, TUFTS University, Boston, USA.

10.30 – 11:00
Coffee break

11.00 – 12.30
Talk section II
Sven Becker, Marion Borowski, Melanie Gnasa, Kai Stalmann, Stefan Wrobel: eHumanities: Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems in Humanities and Cultural Sciences. Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS) and University of Bonn, Germany.
Helge Kahler: eHumanities from a funder’s perspective. Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany.

Open discussion 30 min.

12.30 – 14.00
Lunch break

14.00 – 17.30
Semantic challenge: qualitative versus quantitative methods

14.00 – 15.30
Team 1: Marie-Christine Bornes Varol1, Marie-Sol Ortola2, Jean-Daniel Gronoff3: Specific polysemy of the brief sapiential units. 1Inalco, Paris, 2Université Nancy, 3Dir. Méthodologies sémantiques annotatives, DualSemantics, Paris, France.

Team 2: Ingelore Hafemann, Simon Schweitzer: The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae – an interplay between an electronic corpus of Egyptian texts and the Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian Language. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany.

Team 3: Marco Büchler, Gerhard Heyer: Salton and Wittgenstein in the Humanities: About Semantics in Philosophical Texts. Natural Language Processing Group, University of Leipzig, Germany.

15.30
Coffee break

16.00 – 17.00
Team 4: Christoph Schlieder: Digital Heritage: Semantic Challenges of Long-term Preservation. Computing in the Cultural Sciences, University of Bamberg, Germany.
Team 5: Alexander Mehler, Nils Diewald, Rüdiger Gleim and Ulli Waltinger: Time Series of Linguistic Networks. Text Technology, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

17.00 – ca. 17:30
Round table with subsequent open discussion

Estimated number of participants: 40
Special requirements: internet access, beamer, stage/podium for round table

*All welcome*

Comment on BASP goes open access … or something by Дмитрий

2010-06-05T14:49:35Z

Автотехцент Ниссан предоставляет весь спектр технических услуг, касающихся ремонта, диагностики и обслуживания nissan stagea в Москве

NEH Awards in Ancient Studies, March 29, 2010

2010-04-01T15:41:58Z

NEH announces $16 million in awards and offers for 286 humanities projects, March 29, 2010. Following are the funded projects relating to the Ancient World:

University of California, Berkeley Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends]
Project Director: Robert Goldman
Project Title: The Final Chapter: Introduction, Translation, and Scholarly Annotation of the Uttarakanda of the Critical Edition of the Valm

University of California, Berkeley Outright: $49,942 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants] Project Director: Niek Veldhuis
Project Title: Berkeley Prosopography Services: Building Research Communities and Restoring Ancient Communities through Digital Tools
Project Description: Development of the Berkeley Prosopography Service (BPS), an open source digital toolkit that extracts prosopographic data from TEI encoded text and generates interactive visual representations of social networks.

University of California, Berkeley Outright: $234,495 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Project Director: James Matisoff
Project Title: Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus: Sustainability
Implementation
Project Description: The development of an online etymological dictionary and thesaurus of
Proto-Sino-Tibetan, the common ancestor of languages spoken in China, India, and Southeast
Asia. The project would also implement strategies for sustaining this resource over the long term.

University of Southern California Outright: $24,933 [Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants] Project Director: David Albertson
Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on the Power of Visual Images Project Description: The development of an undergraduate seminar on the significance

University of California, Los Angeles Outright: $50,000
[Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants]
Project Director: Lisa Snyder
Project Title: Software Interface for Real-time Exploration of Three-Dimensional Computer
Models of Historic Urban Environments
Project Description” The prototype development for a generalized, extensible platform that will
allow for real-time exploration, annotation, and tours in 3D computer models, using the NEH-
funded Digital Karnak as the test case.

National Geographic Society Outright: $800,000 [America's Media Makers Production]
Project Director: Maryanne Culpepper Project Title: In the Footsteps of Heroes
Project Description: Production of a six-part television documentary series about the history and culture of Ancient Greek civilization from the Bronze Age through the Roman annexation of Greece in 146 BCE.

Emory University Outright: $24,965
[Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants]
Project Director: Andrew Mitchell
Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on How Does One Live a Life that Ends?
Project Description: The development of an introductory level undergraduate course that charts a three-part historical trajectory from ancient Sumerian and Greek texts to 20th-century thought.

University of Chicago Outright: $300,000
[America's Historical & Cultural Organizations Implementation]
Project Director: Anthony Hirschel
Project Title: Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
Project Description: Implementation of a traveling exhibition, a website, an international
symposium, a catalog, and programs on the sculptures of Xiangtangshan caves in China.

Northern Illinois University Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends]
Project Director: John Bentley Project
Title: Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Orthography

Walters Art Museum Outright: $315,000
[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: William Noel
Project Title: Parchment to Pixel: Creating a Digital Resource of Medieval Manuscripts
Project Description: Cataloging and digitizing 105 medieval illuminated manuscripts dating
mostly from the 9th to the 16th centuries that derive from diverse Christian cultures. Images and
catalog data would be freely accessible via the museum's Web site and a portal maintained by
Johns Hopkins University.

Harvard University Outright: $215,099 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: William Fash
Project Title: Digitizing, Re-housing, Cataloging, and Creating Online Access to the Peabody Museum's Photograph Collection*
Project Description: The second phase of a project to catalog, digitize, and mount on the Internet 25,000 photographic images from the Peabody Museum Photographic Archives that document archaeological and ethnographic objects and major expeditions, dating from 1866 to the 1930s.

Mount Holyoke College Outright: $18,535
[Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants]
Project Director: Elizabeth Markovits
Project Title: NEH Enduring Questions Course on What Is Family?
Project Description: The development of a first-year seminar on the changing meanings of family from classical to modern times.

Documentary Educational Resources, Inc. Outright: $50,000
[America's Media Makers Development]
Project Director: David Lebrun
Project Title: The Royal Cup
Project Description: Development of an hour-long documentary film on ancient Maya pottery and the ethics of studying and collecting objects that may have been looted.

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends]
Project Director: Alex Jassen
Project Title: Violence, Religion, and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Carleton College [Teaching Development Fellowships]
Project Director: William North
Project Title: Cultures of Empire: Byzantium, 711-1453
Outright: $21,000

University of Mississippi, Main Campus Outright: $6,000 {Summer Stipends]
Project Director: Steven Skultety Project
Title: Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy

College of New Jersey Outright: $21,000 [Teaching Development Fellowships]
Project Director: Deborah Huton
Project Title: Arts of South Asia: Exploring Monuments in Depth

University of New Mexico Outright: $49,832 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants]
Project Director: Jennifer von Schwerin
Project Title: Digital Documentation and Reconstruction of an Ancient Maya Temple and Prototype of Internet GIS Database of Maya Architecture
Project Description: This project brings together an international team of archeologists, technologists, and cultural heritage site managers to develop a test implementation of a new online platform for virtual environments of significant cultural sites, using the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Copan, Honduras as a testbed

New York Botanical Garden Outright: $40,000 [America's Historical and Cultural Organizations Planning]
Project Director: Susan Fraser
Project Title: Medicinal Plants: Ancient Culture to Modern Medicine at The New York Botanical Garden
Project Description: Planning for a multiformat traveling exhibition and public programs that explore how plants have shaped the trajectory of medicine throughout the world.

Aquila Theatre Company, Inc. Outright: $800,000
[America's Historical & Cultural Organizations Implementation]
Project Director: Peter Meineck
Project Title: Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives: Poetry-Drama-Dialogue
Project Description: Implementation of a national program series exploring classical literature, to be presented at 100 libraries and performing arts centers in 20 states.

New York University Outright: $298,457 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources] Project Director: Thomas Elliott
Project Title: Pleiades: Content and Community for Ancienty Geography Project Description: The continued development of an open-access digital gazetteer for Greek and Roman history with reusable open-source software that could be employed in other digital humanities publications.

Hartwick College Outright: $6,000 [Summer Stipends] Project
Director: Martha Zebrowski
Project Title: William Smith's 1753 Translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War

Cleveland Museum of Art Outright: $40,000 [America's Historical and Cultural Organizations Planning]
Project Director: Sue Bergh
Project Title: The Realm of the Condor: Wari, the Art of a Pre-Inca Empire Project Description: Planning for a traveling exhibition and a publication on the art of the Wari Empire which flourished in highland Peru from about AD 750 to AD 1000.

University of Pennsylvania Outright: $240,655 [Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]
Project Director: Grant Frame Project Title: Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Project Description: Online publication of the official inscriptions of the rulers of ancient Assyria, which are preserved on clay tablets and other artifacts. The project would also provide transliterations, translations, and bibliographic information.

University of Virginia Outright: $50,000 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants]
Project Director: Bernard Frischer
Project Title: New Digital Tools for Restoring Polychromy to 3D Digital Models of Sculpture Project Description: The development of a set of tools that would allow for the accurate inclusion and display of color for Classical sculpture, using the Augustus of Prima Porta in the Vatican Museums as a case study.

University of Virginia Outright: $48,549 [Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants]
Project Director: David Koller
Project Title: Supercomputing for Digitized 3D Models of Cultural Heritage
Project Description: The development of new algorithms and software to process large-scale,
data-intensive 3D models of cultural heritage materials on supercomputers.

W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research Outright: $320,400 [Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions]
Project Director: Seymour Gitin
Project Title: Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Middle Eastern Archaeology Project Description: The equivalent of two twelve-month fellowships a year for three years.

DM Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli

2010-03-01T13:18:06Z

Dr Michael Metcalfe writes with the sad news, widely reported in the Italian press, of the death in Ferbruary of Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli. Here is one obituary, selected at random: http://www.ilmattino.it/articolo.php?id=91116&sez=NAPOLI .

Comment on BASP goes open access … or something by Tom Elliott

2010-02-16T12:29:27Z

Thanks for the update Kevin!

Comment on BASP goes open access … or something by Kevin Hawkins

2010-02-15T17:26:44Z

The access policy is now located at http://www.lib.umich.edu/library-administration/access-and-use-policy .

Epigrafía y cultura escrita en la Antigüedad clásica

2010-02-08T18:13:03Z

Manuel Ramírez reports on the publication of Cultura Escrita & Sociedad vol. 9 2009, entitled Epigrafía y cultura escrita en la Antigüedad clásica.

Lecture: Rediscovering the inscriptions of Campa (Vietnam)

2010-02-03T18:24:08Z

The following lecture (in New York) has just been announced:

Rediscovering the inscriptions of Campa (Vietnam)
Speaker: Arlo Griffiths
Location: 2nd Floor Lecture Room
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 E 84th St
New York, NY
Date: Monday, March 8 2010
Time: 6:00 p.m.

The aim of this lecture is to inform the interested New York public on recent developments in the study of the written records of ancient ‘Indianized’ polities in Southeast Asia. We will take as example the epigraphic corpus of the ancient Campa kingdom(s), which lay in what is now central and southern Vietnam. The study of Campa epigraphy involves texts in Sanskrit and in the poorly known vernacular Old Cam language, which belongs to the Austronesian language family. This field of research once flourished in French colonial times, then all but died out after WW II, and has only recently been resuscitated from a coma that lasted for decades. Newly discovered inscriptions have started to be published again, and a census of Campa inscriptions was undertaken last September-October in museums and archaeological sites of Vietnam. The aim of the census was to up-date the general inventory of Campa inscriptions, whose last published installment dates to 1942, and to record essential data of previously known and newly discovered epigraphical documents. The presentation will discuss general aspects of Southeast Asian epigraphy, as well as specific aspects of the Campa corpus and the history of its study. Some new inscriptions, which throw interesting new light on the history of Campa and its place within the larger scale development of Southeast Asian history, will be selected for close inspection.

Arlo Griffiths holds a PhD in Sanskrit from Leiden University. After holding a position as lecturer in Indian Religions at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), and holding the chair of Sanskrit at Leiden University, he joined the French School of Asian Studies (L’École française d’Extrême-Orient) in 2008 as Professor of Southeast Asian history. His main fields of interest are Hindu religious/ritual literature in Sanskrit, on the one hand, and inscriptions of Southeast Asia in Sanskrit and vernacular languages, on the other. His approach to the (ancient) history of Southeast Asia is primarily epigraphic, and he is currently involved in projects concerning the inscriptions of ancient Cambodia, ancient Indonesia, and Campa.

Comment on Job: Research Associate, Digital Sanskrit Library (Brown) by Jyothish Mayi

2009-12-06T14:36:03Z

Total sanskrit solutions undertakes
1. Translations from Sanskrit to english
2. Translations from English to sanskrit
3. Writing articles, plays, scripts etc. in sanskrit.

Job: Research Associate, Digital Sanskrit Library (Brown)

2009-11-26T00:04:20Z

The following notice comes by way of Elli Mylonas at Brown University:

The digital Sanskrit library in the Department of Classics at Brown University seeks a post-doctoral research associate for one year to assist in an NEH-funded project entitled, “Enhancing Access to Primary Cultural Heritage Materials of India.” The position carries a stipend of $25,000 for one year.

The Sanskrit Library is a collaborative project to make the heritage texts of India accessible on the web. The project is building a digital Sanskrit library by integrating texts, linguistic software, and digital Sanskrit lexical sources. This year the project is making digital images of manuscripts of the Mahābhārata and Bhāgavatapurāṇa housed at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, cataloguing them, and linking them with the corresponding machine-readable texts. Extending the scope of linguistic software to these digital images serves as a pilot project to demonstrate the feasibility of doing so with manuscript images generally.

The research associate will work with the project director, software engineer, and student assistants on the following tasks:

–to mark manuscript page boundaries in machine-readable texts
–to develop word-spotting and automated text-image alignment techniques
–to develop conduits for simultaneous print, PDF, and html publication of the catalogue and other documents.

The position requires advanced training in Sanskrit, academic research skills, and expertise in XML. Desirable additionally are some or all of the following: competence in the text-encoding initiative (TEI) standards, XSLT, HTML, CSS, TeX, Java, user-interface design, Perl, PhP, and server administration. The applicant is expected to be creative and to able to work individually as well as to collaborate with technical personnel.

Brown University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Apply by sending a resumé, a description of your relevant experience with links to products produced, a clear indication of your role and responsibility in their production (whether you are exclusively responsible or the manner and extent of your responsibility), and the names and contact information of three references to the project director (Peter Scharf) via email (scharf@brown.edu) with the subject heading, “Sanskrit Library Assistant,” by 1 December 2009.

Immediate opening for webmaster/systems administrator at ISAW

2009-10-02T12:18:25Z

We have an immediate opening for a full-time web master / systems administrator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.

ISAW Doctoral Program in Ancient World

2009-09-29T15:23:14Z

This (and more detail) now up on the ISAW website:

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is now receiving applications for its program in the Ancient World (2010-2011 academic year). This new doctoral program is distinctive in its flexibility and breadth, embracing the disciplines relevant to a comprehensive understanding of the entire Old World in antiquity. ISAW seeks students with sufficient preparation in at least one discipline or domain to allow them to work beyond its limits and who are committed to scholarly inquiries that cross boundaries of time, place, and discipline. Inaugurated in 2009/10, ISAW’s doctoral program offers rich opportunities for collegial learning and exposure to new perspectives within a research community.

Comment on Τεκμήρια resurgens by Tom Elliott

2009-09-24T11:22:53Z

John: Thanks for finding that information. I still think it would be helpful to have a clear statement of readers’/users’ rights/license directed to them. This is what CC was designed for.

Τεκμήρια resurgens

2009-09-23T20:19:26Z

This afternoon, Chuck Jones alerts us to the re-appearance of the journal Τεκμήρια (ISSN 1106-661x). It is now operating as “a peer reviewed open access journal” under the auspices of the Ινστιτούτο Eλληνικής και Pωμαϊκής Aρχαιότητος (Κ.Ε.Ρ.Α.). Back issues are available on the site (built with the Open Journal Systems publishing system), and in many cases the articles are available in page-scan PDFs and OCR’d PDFs. Information about the reconstituted journal and its submission and review policies are also available. The table of contents for the new issue (vol. 9 = 2008) is worth a look!

My congratulations to the editors and advisers is tempered only by two factors: the discovery that the OCR PDFs seem to employ a custom (non-unicode) font encoding, and a lack of clarity about copyright and license. The non-standard encoding constitutes an unfortunate choice that undermines long-term digital preservation. On the copyright front, the site lacks a clear statement of what the editors and the sponsoring organization mean by “open access”. Though copyright is asserted via a simple statement at the bottom of each web page (“Copyright © EKT“), one misses an increasingly standard feature of “open-access” publications: a Creative Commons license (or other) statement indicating what users may (and may not) do with the material presented.

ZPE available on JSTOR

2009-08-06T12:13:57Z

Chuck Jones has the details.

Comment on BASP goes open access … or something by lifer1986

2009-07-13T05:38:08Z

Спасибо, понравилось

Comment on New Digital Humanities/Libraries/Museums Calendar by Amanda French

2009-02-27T21:27:26Z

Thanks for blogging it! Anyone from the humanities, libraries, archives, museums etcetera world who wants full admin privileges can have them — just e-mail me at amanda@amandafrench.net.

New Digital Humanities/Libraries/Museums Calendar

2009-02-27T21:01:22Z

Amanda French has started a publicly accessible calendar of conferences and events related to “Digital Humanities, Digital Libraries and Digital Museums.”

Digital Geography and Classics

2009-02-27T14:31:54Z

Tom Elliott and Sean Gillies Digital Humanities Quarterly(2009)

NEH Program Officer jobs

2009-02-11T21:35:03Z

The National Endowment for the Humanities is hiring: two “humanities administrator” positions (aka program officers), and one accountant. Better hurry: one of them closes this Friday.

Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH)

2009-01-16T18:02:24Z

The Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH) is a searchable resource that provides texts, bibliographic citations, descriptive data and images for Latin and Greek inscriptions of the Roman Empire. EDH forms an essential component of the Electronic Archives of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE), functioning as the primary repository for inscriptions from the Roman provinces. It is directed by Christian Witschel, who took over in 2007 from the project’s founder, Géza Alföldy. Witschel is assisted by a research team at Heidelberg, and a growing number of external collaborators worldwide. The project was founded in 1986, and put its first data online in 1997. The project website provides a full history.

As of January 2009, EDH contained texts for over 53,000 inscriptions, together with full records for over 12,000 bibliographic items and over 17,000 images of inscriptions in addition to about 5,000 images linked from other online databases. Many of the texts in EDH are revised or corrected from previous print publications on the basis of autopsy, or with reference to a squeeze or photograph. An increasing number of print-oriented epigraphic projects are simultaneously providing EDH with electronic copies of newly edited inscriptions slated to appear in their publications.

The current database and its interface permit users to discover content by searching on a combination of the many descriptive, bibliographic and full-text fields in the three databases that house the project’s data: the Epigraphic Text Database, the Epigraphic Bibliography and the Photographic Database. Crosslinks in the text database provide easy access to corresponding bibliographic and photographic information in the other databases. An array of “simple,” “complex,” and “expert” search interfaces support these actions.

The EDH interface has been localized for German and English readers. It provides various helps for users, as well as comprehensive information about the project, its history and collaborators. The web interface employs forms, which unfortunately makes it difficult to provide links to individual components of EDH. There does not seem to be any simple way to discover a stable URL that could be used to link to a single record. Users’ browsers must have Javascript turned on.

This page is expanded, revised and updated (with permission from the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) from an earlier description previously posted at ASGLE Links Site 33.

Comment on Epigraphical Documents: Reflection of Reality or Construction of Historical Knowledge? by Tom Elliott

2009-01-15T00:14:26Z

Sara:

Thanks very much for your comment — it is completely appropriate to alert us to this oversight on my part. I am sorry that I missed the mention of your paper in the program the first time.

Best,
Tom

Epigraphical Documents: Reflection of Reality or Construction of Historical Knowledge?

2009-01-13T19:25:53Z

The preliminary program has just been posted for the August 2009 conference in Berlin of the Fédération internationale des Associations d’études classiques / International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies. Among the panels listed there, we find one on the topic “Epigraphical Documents: Reflection of Reality or Construction of Historical Knowledge?”

I take the liberty of reproducing the list of speakers, with titles and links to abstracts in pdf:

Invited speakers:

Francisco Beltrán Lloris:
Angelos Matthaiou: Palmyra

zugelassene Bewerber in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:

Alejandr García González (Universidad de Valladolid, España)
Los ‘otros’ epitafios y dedicaciones greco-latinos: inversiones, burlas y parodias

Anja Knebusch (Berlin, Deutschland)
Die metrischen Inschriften Germaniens als Spiegelbild provinzieller Bildung

Aleksandr Koptev (Helsinki, Finlandl):
A possible lacuna in the Roman Fasti Consulares

Sophia Kravaritou (Archaeological Institute for Thessalian Studies, Greece):
Greek “Calendars”: ancient documents through modern consideration

Luca Maurizi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Autorappresentazione senatoria nell’agorà di Atene e un nuovo proconsul Achaiae

Vladimir P. Petrovic (Académie Serbe des Sciences et des Arts, Serbia)
Les erreurs dans l’interpretation scientifique de Tabula Peutingeriana: L’emplacement de la station balnéaire de Aquae Bas sur la route Naissus-Lissus

Cecilia Ricci (Università del Molise, Italia)
Le coorti urbane: braccio armato del potere senatorio a Roma o polizia al servizio della città? Una riflessione

José Vela Tejada (Universidad de Zaragoza, España)
Koine Eirene and the Satraps’ Revolt in the Inscription of Argos (IG IV 556=SIG³ 182): Historical Reality or Panhellenical Propaganda?

Gustavo Veneciano (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
La inscripción IvO 7

Update: I also notice the following papers of probable epigraphic interest listed in other sections:

Silvia Barbantani (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italia)
The symbol of the spear in funerary or honorary epigrams/inscriptions for Ptolemaic philoi and soldiers

Rebecca R. Benefiel (Washington and Lee University, USA):
Pompeii and her Neighbors: ancient graffiti and civic identity

Danijela Stefanovic (Serbian Society for Ancient Studies, Serbia):
Roman Funerary Stelae from Egypt – An Overview

Jessica Piccinini (Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Great Britain)
Geographical provenance and social status of the customers of the oracle of Dodona

Judith Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (, Université de Lille, France):
AE 1928.73 (Epitaph of Petale Sulpicia) and Ovid, Tristia 3.7: Gender, Class and Roman Women’s Poetry

Michael Johnson (Davidson College, USA):
Mommsen lecture notes at Rutgers University

Burak Takmer (Akdeniz Üniversitesi Antalya, Turkey)
Lex Portorii Provinciae: Zollinschrift aus Andriake von neronischer Zeit

Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby (EDCS)

2009-01-12T00:56:27Z

The Epigrafik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby (EDCS) is a searchable resource providing texts and bibliographic citations (lemmata of editions) for “nearly all Latin inscriptions.” It is edited by Manfred Clauss, and is the revised edition (under continuous improvement) of a resource dating back to the 1990s that was previously described as “Manfred Clauss’ epigraphic database” or “Frankfurt Latin Epigraphic Texts”.

As of January 2009, EDCS contained texts for over 330,000 inscriptions previously published in print, together with over 19,000 images of inscriptions (some linked from other online databases, others hosted natively by EDCS). Crosslinking to corresponding epigraphic records in other databases (including EDH) is in the process of incorporation. The texts are simply regularized transcriptions drawn from previously published (print) editions.

The current database and its interface, developed by Barbara Woitas with the assistance of Bernward Tewes, permits users to discover content by searching on a combination of publication, Roman province, placename and one or two search strings. A separate search interface permits users to download a single page containing all texts and lemmata for the inscriptions recorded in an individual publication (e.g., all of AE 1986). A third search interface supports the discovery of texts containing misspelled words and searches that ignore the editorial expansion of ancient abbreviations.

The EDCS interface has been localized for German, Spanish, French, Italian and English readers. It provides various helps for users, including a table of epigraphic sigla and a list of the bibliographic abbreviations employed in the database records. The web interface employs forms, which unfortunately makes it difficult to provide links to individual components of EDCS. There does not seem to be any simple way to discover a stable URL that could be used to link to a single record.

Advanced Seminar in Greek Epigraphy (Bologna, 15-17 January 2009)

2009-01-06T18:57:21Z

Lucia Criscuolo writes to alert us to the following event:

Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca

Bologna, 15-17 gennaio 2009
Novotel Bologna Fiera
via Michelino 73

Alma Mater Studiorum
Università di Bologna
Istituto di Studi Superiori

L’Istituto di Studi Superiori dell’Università di Bologna, che comprende l’Istituto di Studi Avanzati e il Collegio Superiore, organizza il primo SAEG, Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca.

Il Seminario è un’iniziativa volta innanzitutto a dottorandi, assegnisti e giovani ricercatori che intendano approfondire la propria formazione in tematiche relative alla disciplina epigrafica greca, allargare le proprie esperienze nel campo delle scienze storiche antiche o presentare eventualmente le proprie ricerche nel settore. L’occasione si prefigge inoltre di favorire un incontro tra studiosi, al fine di discutere in modo costruttivo il proprio lavoro scientifico e di confrontare i risultati delle ricerche in corso.

Per informazioni:

Lucia Criscuolo
Dipartimento di Storia Antica
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
lucia.criscuolo@unibo.it

Alice Bencivenni
Dipartimento di Storia Antica
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
alice.bencivenni2@unibo.it

[full program follows - TRE.]

GIOVEDÌ 15 GENNAIO, ore 10.00

Saluti e introduzione
Laura BOFFO, Documenti antichi tra “Oriente” e “Occidente”: epigrafie a confronto
Paola LOMBARDI, L’importanza dell’indagine lessicale per la comprensione dei documenti epigrafici: alcuni esempi
Cristoforo GROTTA, Dediche di gruppi gentilizi: le formule
Mario LOMBARDO, Alessandro Magno in una nuova iscrizione dalla Croazia
Valentina DE MARTINO, Diva DI NANNI, Elena MIRANDA, Epigrafi e Sport. Recenti scoperte dai cantieri della Metropolitana di Napoli

ore 12.30 Discussione e pausa

GIOVEDÌ 15 GENNAIO, ore 15.00

Giuseppe RAGONE, Gli horoi di Larisa all’Ermo
Claudio BIAGETTI, IvMagn. 17 e le tradizioni di fondazione di Magnesia al Meandro
Francesco GUIZZI, Mopso protettore di Hierapolis. Epigrafia e mito
Alice BENCIVENNI, I segreti della comunicazione fra i sovrani ellenistici e le città dell’Asia Minore

ore 16.20 Discussione e pausa

Roberta FABIANI, I decreti onorari di Iasos: datazione e deduzioni storiche
Stefano STRUFFOLINO, Le iscrizioni greche dell’oasi di Siwa: proposta per un’interpretazione organica delle fonti
Barbara GUAGLIUMI, Le iscrizioni greche del Museo Egizio di Torino: anticipazioni e problemi
Gianluca CASA, Una nuova dedica a un Tolemeo da Naxos (Cicladi)

ore 18.20 Discussione

VENERDÌ 16 GENNAIO, ore 9.00

Lidio GASPERINI, Per una rilettura «integrale» del donario cireneo S.E.G. IX 78
Franca FERRANDINI, Silvana CAGNAZZI, Tettichos e le cicale degli Ateniesi
Adalberto MAGNELLI, Note di lettura relative alla dedica sul plinto A dei cosiddetti Kouroi di Delfi
Teresa ALFIERI, Epimeletai e imperialismo ateniese dal V al II secolo a. C.

ore 10.20 Discussione e pausa

Cristina CARUSI, Le syngraphai ateniesi di V e IV secolo
Giovanni MARGINESU, Gli epistati delle opere pubbliche nel V secolo a.C.
Donatella ERDAS, Anna MAGNETTO, Iscrizioni economiche greche: progetto per una nuova silloge

ore 12.00 Discussione e pausa

VENERDÌ 16 GENNAIO, ore 14.30

Enrica CULASSO, Atene e la cleruchia di Lemnos: documentazione epigrafica, problemi testuali e interpretazione storica
Giulio VALLARINO, Dividere il damos, dividere il territorio, la funzione delle ripartizioni civiche nei testi pubblici di Cos
Valeria FODERÀ, Documentazione sulla vita sociale di area cicladica: attacchi di pirati e reazioni civiche
Daniela QUADRINO, Aspetti e problematiche cultuali nelle isole doriche dell’Egeo

ore 15.50 Discussione e pausa

Manuela MARI, Le fonti epigrafiche e i ‘misteri’ nella storia del santuario di Nemea
Sara CAMPANELLI, L’associazionismo nel culto di Hypsistos: il caso della Macedonia di età romana
Gabriella BEVILACQUA, L’incidenza del mito e aspetti del mondo infero attraverso l’analisi dei testi epigrafici di defixiones
Antonietta BRUGNONE, Una nuova iscrizione da Himera

ore 17.50 Discussione

SABATO 17 GENNAIO, ore 9.00

Alessandra INGLESE, Note di epigrafia terea arcaica
Alessia DIMARTINO, Paleografia e iscrizioni teatrali della Sicilia ellenistica: solo una questione di stile?
Marco VINCI, Il decreto di Eleutherna e la datazione dei documenti teii di asylia

ore 10.00 Discussione e pausa

Claudia ANTONETTI, Edoardo CAVALLI, Il laboratorio di epigrafia greca dell’Università di Venezia: percorsi di ricerca nell’epigrafia della Grecia nord-occidentale
Damiana BALDASSARRA, Per una storia della scrittura epigrafica greca nella Venetia tra pierres errantes e committenza locale
Eleonora SANTIN, Autori di epigrammi sepolcrali greci su pietra: firme di poeti occasionali e professionisti
Lucia D’AMORE, Nel fiore della giovinezza. Ginnasio ed efebia negli epigrammi greci

ore 12.00 Discussione e conclusione

Programming job: text mining in ancient texts

2009-01-06T16:02:01Z

Marco Büchler at the University of Leipzig just sent around this announcement:

The Natural Language Processing Division at the Computer Science Department of the University of Leipzig, Germany, is the leading partner in the E-Humanties project eAQUA – a project financed by the German Ministry of Research and Technology for applying advanced text mining technology to digital ancient texts (www.eaqua.net).

For this project we are searching for computer scientist with demonstrated research expertise in one or more of the following areas:

Experience in Text Mining and Natural Language Processing,

Programming skills in Java with applications in the E-Humanties,

Processing of large digital text resources.

Prior experience in participating in large European or other transnational initiatives is highly desirable.

The starting date for this full-time position is February 1, 2009. The initial period of appointment is for two years, with the possibility of renewal subject to follow-up funding.
The position is at the rank of “Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter” (M.A. or equivalent required). The salary is determined by the German civil servants standard (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) and amounts to 42000-52000 Euro per year. The exact salary depends on the successful applicant’s experience.

Applications should include CV, an outline of research experience, as well as names and addresses of references. Applications should be sent by mail or by email to the address below.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer
Automatische Sprachverarbeitung
Institut für Informatik
Universität Leipzig
Postfach 10
D – 04009 Leipzig
Germany
email: heyer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Applications received by January 31, 2009 will receive full consideration, although interviews may start at any time and will continue until the position has been filled.

Disabled applicants will be preferred if they have the same qualifications as non-disabled applicants. The University of Leipzig strives to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and therefore encourages qualified female scientists to apply.

Comment on Dan Diffendale's: Your c.v. might be on your blog, but...

2008-12-12T14:10:31Z

Tom Elliott December 2008.

Hi Dan ... thanks for this.I've been trying to sti...

2008-12-12T14:05:00Z

Hi Dan ... thanks for this.

I've been trying to stitch my professional self together online via http://homepages.nyu.edu/~te20/. I'm reacting a bit to all the Bamboo talk about "a social network for the humanities," which I think is a misnomer. I think we should be talking about professional and social networking by and among humanists. Just as one's pre/extra-cyber network spans many contexts and venues, I think so does/should/must one's online persona (and in fact I don't think that, professionally, the two should be disjoint either).

So, one finds there some linkup (html and feed versions of) my cv, my blogging/commenting/writing/publishing, what I'm reading/citing (social bookmarking/bibliography), and various project things. There's some rudimentary social graph encoding underneath, but I haven't yet delved into pointing at other individuals.

I've been wanting to blog about this for a while, but now your comment has given me an even lower-impedance opening! I look forward to hearing where this discussion goes, and hope that some folks will comment on what I'm doing both on the page referenced above and with the side bar on my blog at http://horothesia.blogspot.com, which surfaces some of those same resources under different skins.

Dan Cohen had an interesting post on blogging and scholarship a couple of weeks ago: "Leave the Blogging to Us" in Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog (5 December 2008).

Bill Carraher had another good, relevant post last week: "Blogging and Genre" in The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World (9 December 2008).

By the way, I've been checking in from time to time on what you've been doing with inscriptions in Flickr. I'd be interested in discussing how we might find ways to socially hook up epigraphic photography (amateur and academic) in flickr with other digital resources for epigraphy.

Best,
Tom

CFP: Natural Language Processing for Ancient Language

2008-11-24T18:05:11Z

Chuck Jones has just posted a call for papers for a special issue of the TAL journal (Revue TAL) on the topic “Natual Language Processing for Ancient Language” over at AWBG.

Epigraphic Flickr: Cippus of Probus from Tunisia

2008-11-12T19:35:51Z

For some time I’ve been trying to follow the posting of photographs of epigraphic interest to Flickr, the photo-sharing website. Of particular interest (as previously discussed) are the groups Visibile Parlare – Visible Words (Latin) and Visibile Parlare – Visible Words (Greek). A search for the tag “inscription” is also interesting.

From time to time I think I shall highlight here items that catch my interest in these venues.

Consider a photograph posted by Sally Wilson (sallycat101) on 26 October 2008, labeled “inscribed stone, carthage.” The high resolution image of this cylindrical cippus shows only part of the text campus, for external circumstances explained by the photographer.

A little transcription and then searching in the epigraphic databases and we can find that this is a published text:

CIL 8.22084 = ILTun 1732; registered in EDCS (photo), where we get a digital text as follows (I copy it here because there is no mechanism that I can find for direct linkage to individual records in EDCS); evidently not in EDH:

Imp(eratori) Caes(ari)
M(arco) Aurelio
Probo Pi-
o Felici Aug(usto)
pontifici
maximo
tribunici-
ae potesta-
[tis —

Which I’d translate as: “The Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus, pontifex maximus, (holding the) tribunician power …” (the cippus is broken away from its base, destroying one or more additional lines of text).

It’s apparently a milestone (or boundary marker) of the Roman Emperor Probus (AD 276-282). There are a few other inscriptions of Probus cataloged in CIL and other corpora. Without the tribunician year or other indication of date (e.g., consular year), it may be impossible to date this particular inscription more closely.

I’m sure readers without present access to CIL or ILTun (like me) would be grateful for comments (posted here) about the context of this find (EDCS lists “Ain Ghar Salah” as the findspot), the road it may have been associated with, or other relevant matters.

Query: History of Phoenician-Punic Epigraphy

2008-11-12T18:35:29Z

Philip Schmitz writes:

I have been asked to prepare a chapter on the history of Phoenician-Punic epigraphy for a volume honoring an important contributor to the field. I would like to include details of human interest pertaining to significant scholars and discoveries. I have consulted Mark Smith’s wonderful survey of the Northwest Semitic field, and will incorporate relevant items from that work.

I am not much interested in personal foibles or idiosyncrasies of teachers and scholars except as such might have led to progress in the discovery, decipherment, critical edition, or interpretation of Phoenician and Punic inscriptions. More valuable would be instances of working method, the role of comprehensive cataloguing, notable cases of insight or intuition, and the like. Eyewitness accounts of text discoveries, personal or reported narratives about teaching and research methods, and reflection about how discoveries of texts have changed perceptions of ancient history and biblical studies are especially welcome.

The period I plan to cover begins with the seventeenth-century erudites and extends to the current generation. My focus will be on Phoenician and Punic, although that history is difficult to divide neatly from the rest of Northwest Semitic epigraphy or from Semitic studies at large. The earliest periods of the alphabet, significant as they are, are less germane to this study than the periods from Iron II to Roman. I am particularly concerned to identify critical moments and turning points in the field’s development. Hearing your perceptions of these would be immensely helpful as I review and revise my own understanding. I greatly appreciate any response you might wish to make to my request.

Sincerely,

Philip C. Schmitz
pschmitz@emich.edu
Professor of History
Department of History and Philosophy
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
USA

Comment on: Two Quick Notes on Academic and Administrative Blogs

2008-11-07T16:59:33Z

Tom Elliott November 2008.

Convegno EAGLE – Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

2008-11-04T16:02:43Z

Silvia Orlandi has asked me to post notice of the following event:

Convegno EAGLE – Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
Epigrafia, informatica e ricerca storica

L’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Centro Interdisciplinare “Beniamino Segre”
Via della Lungara, 10 – 00165
Rome

7-8 November 2008

Program:

COMITATO ORDINATORE: François BERARD (F), Carlo CARLETTI (I), Kevin CLINTON (USA), Angela DONATI (I), Andrea GIARDINA (I), Joaquin GÓMEZ-PANTOJA (E), Gian Luca GREGORI (I), Tito ORLANDI (I), Silvio PANCIERA (I), Charlotte ROUECHÉ (UK), Christian WITSCHEL (D), Fausto ZEVI (I).
PARTECIPANTI: Antonella Daniela AGOSTINELLI (I), Géza ALFÖLDY (D), Giovanna ASDRUBALI PENTITI (I), Lucio BENEDETTI (I), François BERARD (F), Maria Letizia CALDELLI (I), Lorenzo CALVELLI (I), Giuseppe CAMODECA (I), Carlo CARLETTI (I), Marcella CHELOTTI (I), Laura CHIOFFI (I), Gemma CORAZZA (I), Giovannella CRESCI MARRONE (I), Antonella DE CARLO (I), Barbara DE NICOLÒ (I), Ginette DI VITA-EVRARD (F), Angela DONATI (I), Silvia EVANGELISTI (I), Lanfranco FABRIANI (I), Donato FASOLINI (I), Antonio Enrico FELLE (I), Francisca FERAUDI-GRUÉNAIS (D), Antoine GAILLIOT (F), Andrea GIARDINA (I), Joaquin GÓMEZ-PANTOJA (E), Maria Grazia GRANINO (I), Gian Luca GREGORI (I), Antonio IBBA (I), Nicolas LAUBRY (F), Marion LAMÉ (F), Fulvia MAINARDIS (I), Silvia Maria MARENGO (I), Giovanni MENNELLA (I), Guido MIGLIORATI (I), Ilaria MILANO (I), Silvia ORLANDI (I), Tito ORLANDI (I), Gianfranco PACI (I), Silvio PANCIERA (I), Viviana PETTIROSSI (I), Valentina PISTARINO (I), Anita ROCCO (I), Charlotte ROUECHÉ (UK), Antonio SARTORI (I), Kurt SCHALLER (E), John SCHEID (F), Marina SILVESTRINI (I), Maria Carla SPADONI (I), Nicolas TRAN (F), Stefania VALENTINI (I), Alfredo VALVO (I), Marina VAVASSORI (I), Christian WITSCHEL (D), Claudio ZACCARIA (I), Fausto ZEVI (I), Enrico ZUDDAS (I).

Avvertenza: il Convegno non prevede una lettura pubblica delle relazioni (i cui testi sono accessibili a tutti sul sito http://www.terraitalia.altervista.org), ma solo un dibattito generale intorno alle stesse ed ai temi da queste trattati, aperto a tutti i partecipanti, iscritti o no.

Venerdì 7 novembre
14.00 Indirizzi di saluto
14.15 Silvio Panciera, EAGLE: perché un convegno?
14.30-16.30 EAGLE: PROGRESSI, DIFFICOLTÀ, SOLUZIONI
Introduce: Giovanni Mennella
Moderano: Géza Alföldy, Gianfranco Paci
16.30 Intervallo
17.00 – 19.00 NUOVE BANCHE FEDERATE, COLLABORAZIONI, SINERGIE
Introduce: Claudio Zaccaria
Moderano: Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais, John Scheid
Sabato 8 novembre
8.30-9.30 I FINANZIAMENTI IERI, OGGI E DOMANI
Introduce: Silvio Panciera
Moderano: Angela Donati, Christian Witschel
9.30-10.30 SCELTE INFORMATICHE E ORGANIZZATIVE
Introduce: Tito Orlandi
Moderano: Silvia Orlandi, Charlotte Roueché
10.30 Intervallo
11.00 – 12.00 PROGRAMMI E PREVISIONI A BREVE, MEDIO E LUNGO TERMINE
Introduce: Carlo Carletti
Moderano: Giuseppe Camodeca, Joaquín Gómez-Pantoja
12.00-12.45 EPIGRAFIA, INFORMATICA, DIDATTICA E RICERCA STORICA
Introduce: Giovannella Cresci Marrone
Moderano: Andrea Giardina, Fausto Zevi
12.45 Congedo
Segreteria: silvia.orlandi@uniroma1.it, marialetizia.caldelli@uniroma1.it, anastasi@lincei.it

Program online (MS Word version)

Testi aggiornati (pdf or doc)

AWBG Meetup at APA/AIA 2009?

2008-10-31T15:19:49Z

Surely it's not to early to start talking about an AWBG-and-friends meetup at the joint annual meetings of the American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America, scheduled for 8-11 January 2009 in Philadelphia!

Thoughts? Caveats? Venues?

A Census of Digital Epigraphy

2008-10-29T17:16:41Z

Dear colleagues and friends:

(Apologies for cross-postings to lists. Please feel free to forward to colleagues, students and other discussion fora.)

Please send me (tom.elliott@nyu.edu) information about digital projects, publications and computer-aided research in epigraphy. This information will be used to update or inform multiple resources including:

The “ASGLE links” resource (currently out of date): http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/links.html

A section on “digital epigraphy” in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Latin Epigraphy

A review of the state of the discipline to be presented at the ASGLE-sponsored session of the Joint Meetings of the APA/AIA in Philadelphia in January 2009

I am interested in any undertaking that involves computational approaches or digital data, whether it has resulted in publication or not. Any subdiscipline of epigraphy (Latin, Greek, other) is of interest. Information about papyrological and palaeographical projects whose methodology, technology or content has direct application in epigraphic study is also welcome.

The ASGLE links update will include a software upgrade, and will be carried out in collaboration with the editorial board of Current Epigraphy and the leadership and appropriate committees of the Association Internationale d’ Épigraphie Grecque et Latine and of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. All information presented in the resulting “new” links collection will be released to the public under terms of a Creative Commons Attribution license so that it can be re-used freely by others. All information sent to me will be assumed to be the intellectual property of the person submitting it, and will be treated under terms of the CC license.

Ideally, I would like to have as much of the following information as possible (please feel free to use your native language):

Title of project, resource or publication

Principal investigator(s), author(s) or editor(s)

Intitutional affiliation(s)

URLs for websites

Publication citation(s)

A short description

Status (e.g., experimental, complete, published, in progress, continuing, private)

Technologies, methodologies used

Sources of funding (past and present)

Contact email address

Thank you for your assistance in this endeavor.

Best,
Tom
–
Tom Elliott
Associate Director for Digital Programs
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~te20/

Thoughts on the Columna rostrata

2008-10-29T14:18:44Z

Stephen Chrisomalis has posted on his blog Glossographia some thoughts on (and an image of) the “Elogium of Gaius Duilius” from Rome.

A New Epigraphy Blog

2008-10-29T14:03:20Z

(reblogged from Ancient World Bloggers Group):

Here’s a hearty welcome to the blogosphere for Marion Lamé, whose Épigraphie en réseau debuts with a post entitled “The Athenian Tribute Lists, A First Bibliography.” She describes the blog thus:

Modeler l’informatique aux exigences des Sciences de l’Antiquité et transformer les outils de recherche de l’Antiquisant pour les adapter aux outils d’édition, conservation, communication et traitement de l’information modernes.

I’ve just added the blog’s feed to Maia Atlantis.

Kalender Altertumswissenschaften Uni Frankfurt

2008-10-29T12:36:34Z

http://kalender-altertumswissenschaften.blogspot.com/
Zusammengestellt in einem Gemeinschaftsprojekt von Doktoranden und wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitern altertumswissenschaftlicher Fächer an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

A New Epigraphy Blog

2008-10-29T12:10:53Z

Here's a hearty welcome to the blogosphere for Marion Lamé, whose Épigraphie en réseau debuts with a post entitled "The Athenian Tribute Lists, A First Bibliography." She describes the blog thus:
Modeler l’informatique aux exigences des Sciences de l’Antiquité et transformer les outils de recherche de l’Antiquisant pour les adapter aux outils d’édition, conservation, communication et traitement de l’information modernes.
I've just added the blog's feed to Maia Atlantis.

Comment on Marcus Nonius Macrinus: the evidence by Tom Elliott

2008-10-27T14:27:30Z

Dorothy King has now also offered a text of the Macrinus tomb inscription.

Comment on Marcus Nonius Macrinus: the evidence by Tom Elliott

2008-10-20T16:57:45Z

Adrian has now added a text of the new inscription from the tomb, following and modifying a first go by the Hungarian blog Sírásók naplója.

UMich libraries goes creative-commons

2008-10-20T13:45:55Z

Via Open-Access News we learn:

The University of Michigan Library has decided to adopt Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial licenses for all works created by the Library for which the Regents of the University of Michigan hold the copyrights. These works include bibliographies, research guides, lesson plans, and technology tutorials.

Marcus Nonius Macrinus: the evidence

2008-10-17T17:57:04Z

Over at Bread and Circuses, Adrian Murdoch rounds up the (epigraphic) evidence for M. Nonius Macrinus, whose monumental tomb was recently discovered north of Rome and who supposedly inspired the main character in that Ridley Scott film from 8 years back …

Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace: The Epigraphical Evidence

2008-10-03T17:06:18Z

Charles Watkinson sends word of a new publication from the American School of Classical Studies in Athens:

Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace: The Epigraphical Evidence, by Nora M. Dimitrova. 208 pp., 132 b/w figs (Hesperia Suppl. 37, ASCSA 2008) ISBN 978-0-87661-537-9 Pb $55.00

The core of this work is an edition of all documents pertaining to sacred ambassadors (theoroi) and initiates (mystai and epoptai) in Samothrace. These documents, which constitute the majority of all Samothracian inscriptions, form a crucial body of evidence for the Samothracian Mysteries of the Great Gods, the most famous mystery cult in antiquity after the Eleusinian Mysteries. All 169 inscriptions that concern theoroi and initiates, both published and unpublished texts, are presented here. The presentation of each document includes the following elements, in accordance with standard epigraphical publications: a physical description of the stone, bibliography, text, epigraphical commentary, and general commentary. Part I comprises documents concerning theoroi in Samothrace, and Part II, those concerning initiates. Each part is prefaced by a discussion of various problems associated these classes of visitor. A major contribution of the volume is prosopographical: The author increases the total number of known theoroi to approximately 250, and that of initiates to some 700. Fourteen new names of eponymous kings, the major Samothracian magistrates, have also been added to the list. A map of the cities who sent visitors to Samothrace demonstrates the site’s wide catchment area.

More information about the book, and a link to buy it, can be found at: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/publications/book/?i=9780876615379

The volume is available to purchase through Amazon.com, bn.com, and other fine booksellers.

Update: Charles has provided the cover page, table of contents and introduction as a PDF file.

Comment on Inscriptions on the Antikythera Mechanism (1) by Tom Elliott

2008-10-01T16:52:40Z

Paul, Gabby:

I think the way this works is: if you are a registered author on the blog, you get an email notice anytime someone other than you comments on a post you’ve written. That’s a separate function from the webfeed for comments, which is: http://www.currentepigraphy.org/comments/feed/ , which gives you the most recent 10 comments on any article in the blog.

You can also get a feed of comments for an individual article by subscribing to the individual page for that post (some browsers will give you an obvious way to do this or you can just append “/feed” — minus the quotation marks — to the url for that page, e.g.: http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2008/09/24/inscriptions-on-the-antikythera-mechanism-1/feed/

Hope that helps,
Tom

D. Feissel in Athens: La fin de l’épigraphie latine dans l’Orient grec (29 September)

2008-09-23T15:23:01Z

Noted on the website of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens:

La fin de l’épigraphie latine dans l’Orient grec: paléographie et chronologie

September 29, 2008 18:00
École française d’Athènes, Salle de Conférences, Didotou 6, 106 80 Athènes

SEMINAR
Speaker: Denis Feissel
210-36-79-904

Séminaire de l’École française d’Athènes
Lundi 29 Septembrem 18 h
Invité: Denis Feissel, Professeur au Collège de France
La fin de l’épigraphie latine dans l’Orient grec: paléographie et chronologie
Salle de conférences de l’EfA
Renseignements : 210-36-79-904

Comment on A new (controversial) inscribed cup from Alexandria by Tom Elliott

2008-09-19T14:42:42Z

Hi Ramiro. Thanks for the clarification. Yesterday afternoon I added both your blog (re)post and the original El Mundo article to the running bibliography.

Comment on A slate fragment with Greek exercises(?) from the Foro della Statua Eroica at Ostia by Tom Elliott

2008-09-18T20:41:24Z

See further Lavan’s comments today.

Comment on A new (controversial) inscribed cup from Alexandria by Tom Elliott

2008-09-18T18:41:03Z

The Historica Classica piece Chuck points to glosses a piece at ElMundo.es, whence the new photo and some more tid-bits concerning stratigraphy etc. I’ve added both, plus yet another papy-l subject line, to the rolling bibliography.

A slate fragment with Greek exercises(?) from the Foro della Statua Eroica at Ostia

2008-09-18T17:03:32Z

Among Richard Sadler’s latest additions to the Finds page on the Berlin-Kent Ostia Excavations Blog (18 September 2008), we find a fragment of a slate tablet, preserving 6 or more lines of incised Greek, to judge from the photo (I cannot make out enough of the text to offer a transcription here). Sadler tentatively interprets this object, found in fill, as evidence that the forum housed a school in Roman times.

This is the second item of epigraphic interest presented online by the team (see our discussion of the first fragment). Luke Lavan’s post yesterday on the main blog gives us hope that we’ll soon see more:

The cleaning of the facade has revealed a number of new layers, including a destruction layer which apparently overlies the earliest Trajanic phase of the floor and may give a TPQ date for the building of the facade in its final form. A well-cut inscription came out this layer and is being identified. Elsewhere on site inscriptions are becoming more comon as parts of the paving are being removed. Such thin inscribed pieces were popularly reused as veneers and paving slabs, and many more likely to have been used, with their inscribed faces down , as Late Roman architects sought to create a paving surface reusing the epigraphic monuments of a previous and perhaps forgotten generation. The re-used material or ’spolia’ is likely to become a key focus of the project. Today Richard Sadler and Diana Everett began to survey the spolia around the forum with some interesting results. We hope to use infomation from the nature of the reuse of stonework to try to phase and date different walls, which often contain similar pieces, suggesting that they were laid down at a similar moment in time.

A new (controversial) inscribed cup from Alexandria

2008-09-18T16:18:26Z

Wieland Willker, on his Textual Criticism bulletin board, has posted (and continues to update) pictures, comments and queries on an inscribed cup (rude pop-up advert there), allegedly excavated by Franck Goddio’s team from the harbor at Alexandria earlier this summer and now in Madrid for an exhibition. The post reacts to (and links to) a piece in Der Spiegel (2008-09-18) by Matthias Schulz, unfortunately titled “Heiliger Gral vom Nil,” wherein Klaus Hallof, André Bernand, Manfred Clauss and David Fabre are quoted in the context of the following question about the inscribed text appearing prominently on the cup (ΔΙΑΧΡΗΣΤΟΥΟΓΟΙΣΤΑΙΣ):

“DIA CHRESTOU OGOISTAIS”. Was bedeutet das?

Readers are invited to provide additional information or opinions in comments here.

Comment on A new (controversial) inscribed cup from Alexandria by Tom Elliott

2008-09-18T16:08:43Z

I shall attempt to maintain, at least for a while, a running (bibli|web)ography of news and comment on this possibly fake inscribed cup at http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/paregorios/alexandria-cup , all the while hoping in vain that the media will stop using the bogus “holy grail” angle.

Aren:Thanks. It's already in there!Best,Tom

2008-09-18T15:49:00Z

Aren:

Thanks. It's already in there!

Best,
Tom

Thanks Bill. It's now in there.

2008-09-18T14:56:00Z
Thanks Bill. It's now in there.

Comment on A new (controversial) inscribed cup from Alexandria by Tom Elliott

2008-09-18T14:51:39Z

The buzz is starting to spread about this item. Here’s a google search for OGOISTAIS or ΟΓΟΙΣΤΑΙΣ, which should turn up most relevant posts.

A new controversial inscribed cup from Alexandria

2008-09-18T14:20:21Z

Tom Elliott Current EpigraphySeptember 2008.

Comment on A new (controversial) inscribed cup from Alexandria by Tom Elliott

2008-09-18T14:12:39Z

Wieland Wilker has been successful in getting an image of the back side of the cup, which displays the second part of the inscription (OGOISTAIS). He’s posted it, along with quotes from some of the on-going list discussions and emails on his Mysterious Crestou Inscription page (note: pop-up advertisement there).

Comment on A new (controversial) inscribed cup from Alexandria by Tom Elliott

2008-09-18T14:09:52Z

I’ve posted a general inquiry to the inscriptiones-l list, asking if any subscribers have additional first-hand information about this item. I’ve also written to the PR firm that manages press inquiries for Goddio, but have not had a response.

Comment on A new (controversial) inscribed cup from Alexandria by Tom Elliott

2008-09-17T20:46:27Z

The terse Mission Report 2008 at the Goddio website makes no mention of this item. The Madrid exhibition in question is presumably Tesoros Sumergidos de Egipto (at the Matadero de Legazpi, now extended through 15 November 2008). I could find no mention of this item on the exhibition site either.

Comment on A new (controversial) inscribed cup from Alexandria by Tom Elliott

2008-09-17T20:05:24Z

This artifact and inscription are being actively discussed on the ANE-2 list (archives here; look for subject line = Mysterious CRESTOU inscription) and the PAPY-L list (archives are closed, so you’ll have to subscribe to the list and establish a password before you can access them; multiple subject lines).